Across
- 4. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play and the point of greatest tension in the play.
- 7. a literary technique that introduces an apparently irrelevant element is introduced early in the story.
- 10. They may be major or minor static (unchanging) or dynamic (capable of change).
- 12. The main character of a literary work
- 14. A type of drama in which the characters experience reversal of fortune usually for the worse.
- 16. The overall look of the play
- 17. A privileged, exalted character of high repute by virtue of a tragic flaw and/or fate, suffers.
Down
- 1. The conversation of characters in a literary work. In plays, characters' speech is preceded by their names.
- 2. An interruption of a play's chronology (timeline) to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time-frame of the play's action.
- 3. In original Greek tragedy the prologue is either the action or a set of introductory speeches before the first entry of the chorus.
- 5. A speech by a single character without another character's response.
- 6. A traditional chorus in Greek tragedy is a group of characters who comment on the action of a
- 8. without participating in it.
- 9. The purging of the feelings of pity and fear.
- 11. A character or force against which another character struggles.
- 13. An event, conflict or crisis or set of conflicts and crises that constitute the part of a play's plot leading up to the climax.
- 15. A playwright's descriptive or interpretive comments that provide readers with information about the dialogue setting and action of a play.